Yep.
Have to be careful with those stats.
To the best of my knowledge (and some other wannabee advocates) 90-91 was
not year mandatory helmet laws were "introduced" but the time mandatory
helmet laws became heavily "enforced".
It did coincide with the release of the super nintendo also i believe =)
Was talking to the ex pres of Bike Sydney and he seemed to recall that "the
wear a helmet" media campaign did use scare tactics by showing cyclists
getting hit by motor vehicles.
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 2:04 PM, scooter . <meisterfoolish@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> you gotta be careful with them stats.
> what year did the helmet laws come in? werent they back in the big bad
> eighties? i had it pegged around 86-88 or sumfin. so for a 36% decline in
> 90-91 may well be blamed on something else, bad weather year/media scare
> campaign/TV/VCR/the apple 2e?
>
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Michael Dodd <mikeydodds@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> Hey fellas, was having a discussion last night with some people of how
>> mandatory helmet laws effected cycling in Aussie land.
>>
>> The reality is that cycling numbers didn't drop until they started
>> enforcing
>> mandatory helmet laws.
>>
>> Below are some stats of cycling numbers after they started enforcing these
>> helmet laws.
>>
>>
>>
>> "
>>
>> Victoria: Total bicycle use by children aged 5-18 decreased by 36 per cent
>> from May/June 1990 to May/June 1991. There were further decreases to
>> May/June 1992, with teenage cycling in Melbourne showing by then a 46 per
>> cent decrease from pre-law levels.
>>
>> South Australia: The Office of Road Safety, in reporting its evaluation of
>> helmet legislation, said "Due to the disparate nature of the results from
>> different sources, it is not possible to be conclusive about the effect of
>> the requirement to wear bicycle helmets on the number of cyclists." The
>> report noted that Harrison's (1994) study of school children showed a 38
>> per
>> cent decline in cycling from September 1988 to March 1994. This is likely
>> to
>> under-estimate the decline due to the helmets law because cycling is more
>> popular in March than September in southern Australia. A review of this
>> report may be found here <http://www.pcug.org.au/%7Epsvansch/crag>.
>>
>>
>>
>> -
>>
>> Western Australia: A 1992 survey commented that the numbers of children
>> cycling to primary schools and numbers of recreational cyclists declined
>> from 1991 to February 1992. A 1993 survey presents limited data which show
>> some decline in numbers of WA children cycling to school. Its limited
>> observations of "commuter" cyclists indicate an increase in numbers after
>> the helmet law, but a decline of over 50 per cent for cyclists classed as
>> recreational. Data from automatic counter surveys conducted by Main Roads
>> showed a decline of 38 per cent from October-December 1991 to
>> October-December 1992 in cyclists crossing the Narrows and Causeway
>> bridges
>> on Sundays. I obtained from Main Roads similar data for weekdays. These
>> also
>> showed sharp declines.
>>
>> ACT: Automatic counters on bicycle paths registered declines from 1991 to
>> a
>> similar period in 1992 of about one third on weekdays and about half at
>> weekends.
>>
>> In Queensland and the Northern Territory, surveys were done by other
>> organisations. The Royal Automobile Club of Queensland conducted surveys,
>> mainly of cycling to schools, which showed a decline of 22 per cent from
>> 1990 to 1991. Owing to changes in the survey conditions, however, the real
>> decline probably exceeded 30 per cent - and it occurred before the law was
>> enforced.
>>
>> The Road Safety Council of the Northern Territory did surveys which showed
>> there was little change just after the law in the numbers of children
>> cycling to primary schools, but a decline of 17 per cent by the following
>> year. Numbers cycling to secondary schools declined by 36 per cent soon
>> after the law and were down 39 per cent within a year."
>>
>>
>> heres the link http://www.cycle-helmets.com/helmet_analysis.html
>>
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